• Endorsing Tinubu not enough, join APC, chieftain tells senators
• Osun APC berates Gbajabiamila for commending Adeleke’s administration
In a move that has sent shockwaves through Nigeria’s political landscape, all three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators from Osun State have stunned their party by endorsing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term in 2027.
In a joint statement, the lawmakers, Senator Kamarudeen Oyewumi (Osun West), Senator Olubiyi Ajagunla (Osun Central), and Senator Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East), expressed their support for Tinubu’s leadership and a second term in office.
They said that their decision followed a strategic meeting where they unanimously agreed that Tinubu’s leadership was the right path forward for Nigeria.
“This is more than an endorsement—it’s a bold declaration of confidence in President Tinubu’s vision and delivery,” the senators stated. They said that reduction in food prices, improvement in national security and a growing sense of economic stability were signs of the President’s effectiveness. The lawmakers also emphasised that their constituencies were fully aligned with their decision, saying: “Osun stands firmly behind Tinubu.”
MEANWHILE, the National Secretary of the APC, Ajibola Basiru, yesterday, called on the three PDP senators from Osun State, who endorsed Tinubu for a second term, to do more by leaving their party for the APC.
Basiru, while expressing his excitement at the endorsement by the opposition party in the country, said the PDP lawmakers had done what the Yoruba would call Omoluabi.
The APC scribe reacted through the Senator Ajibola Basiru Campaign Organisation in a statement signed by Remi Ajala, on behalf of SABCO. Basiru, who is seeking to succeed Governor Ademola Adeleke in 2026 governorship election said: “The public recognition by the PDP senators of President Tinubu’s achievements, especially in the areas of infrastructure development, economic reforms, food security, and national security is another testimonial that Nigeria is working under our leader and moving towards the clear path of development and it shows a clear act of truthfulness and statesmanship.
“This shows his leadership and style of governance are bringing positive results to Nigerians, including the electorate and constituents in their different senatorial districts in Osun State.”
He, therefore, admonished the PDP senators to take their loyalty and support a step further, stating that it is not enough to praise the President from a distance for self-serving purposes but should wholly align fully with the progressive family at the national and state levels to cement their endorsement of President Tinubu.
According to him, their full alliance and alignment with APC at the state level will show true commitment and allow Osun state and its citizens to fully benefit from the President’s bigger vision to integrate development across the length and breath of Nigeria.
HOWEVER, the Osun State chapter of the APC has reacted strongly to Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila’s recent remark praising Adeleke’s administration as doing a “phenomenal job.”
In a statement signed by APC’s Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, yesterday, the party described the assessment as “borne out of insufficient information.”
The APC claimed that the state government deliberately kept Gbajabiamila away from critical stakeholders who could have provided a more accurate picture of the state’s development.
According to Olabisi, “if the stakeholders had been allowed to interact with the Chief of Staff, we are confident that the blunt Gbajabiamila would have called the governor what he really is: a big and fantastic failure.”
